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by theamk 2y ago
But do you need to do a memorization with a separate step, with flash cards and dedicated time? Or do you naturally memorize stuff as you work with it - after 3rd time you read up consistent hashing, you just remember it when you see it the
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by theamk 2y ago
> Why is it a good model to allow some software engineer "at a distance" to enforce whether some downstream user must drop every other priority and upgrade? It's not a good model, and that's why this only forced in
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by theamk 2y ago
I've read about Unison a lot, and while "remote execution" idea sounds extremely cool, all of other properties seem very dubious. For example re "no breaking changes": - Imagine that in my project, I have a "FO
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by theamk 2y ago
I think Windows is really best served by Microsoft technologies and Microsoft languages. If you want C, there is WSL.
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by theamk 2y ago
likely yes? I've never had problems with make versions specifically. Usually the project requires distro at most X years old because of gcc/clang version or shared library version. By the time you solve those, your make is new eno
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by theamk 2y ago
Between the two, I'd choose MS-DOS based product all the time, especially if this was _just_ MS-DOS, no 3rd-party drivers. MS-DOS is actually amazingly small by modern measures, it offers less features than many modern RTOS'es - i
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by theamk 2y ago
I think "looking things up all the time" (plus "figuring things out all the time") is the primary method of how I learn. This was the case back in college too - solving practical problems (homeworks, projects) was the be
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by theamk 2y ago
btw, link is marked wrong - it's not pdf, it takes you to arxiv page, with links to pdf or HTML view. The [pdf] marker is only for links to pdf files directly, to avoid surprises. The interesting part here is table 2, especially Flops(
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by theamk 2y ago
I see no mention of "userns" in debian's apparmor.d, which means Debian is unaffected because it does not implement such protection at all. An analogy: Ubuntu has installed a lock on a window which turned out to be easily bro
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by theamk 2y ago
SO_PEERCRED is only for Unix domains though, it's not going to work for TCP. For TCP, your only easy option is to have port <1024 - but that requires root. If you want a dedicated user, then TCP requires hacks - like creating a cook
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by theamk 2y ago
pinterest, the most blocked site in search results https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43499045
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by theamk 2y ago
.. and if that AI does not give you the answer you want, re-run it with minor prompt modifications.
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by theamk 2y ago
I dunno, I remember reading qbout glue on pizza almost a year ago.. and today I was talking to github tech support and their AI bot (presumably latest and greatest, with best minds programming it), suggested a command which does not exist.
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by theamk 2y ago
The major difference is in PCB, every single track has to abide by the rules, no exceptions are allowed if you want your board to work. While AI-generated art is full of small defects which people are just ignoring, who cares about non-natu
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by theamk 2y ago
the central directory in this case is google.com (or github.com, or whatever your OIDC provider is) If it gets breached, there will be significantly more problems than unauthorized ssh login. (and this is a beauty of this compared to someth
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by theamk 2y ago
All I want is K-V store with indexes. Let database enforce serialization format (JSON, BSON, MessagePack, protobuf.. anything really) + create and maintain indices, using this fancy crash-proof logic it has. That'll cover 95% of all my
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by theamk 2y ago
The gcc's 512 byte block is actually not that bad. For cache locality, you want block size that is bigger that cache line size - and those are 64 to 128 byte range. And as for overhead, it seems like 1 pointer per block, or 1.5% for de
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by theamk 2y ago
There is a general rule: very few non-blockchain things benefit from being on blockchain, and most people who propose blockchain-based solution to real world problems are either scammers or have not thought about subject matter much. "
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by theamk 2y ago
I don't see why I would use it over `std::deque`. It has all the same complexity properties, but better tested, included in stdlib, and supports complex objects. It even has OK cache locality, given it allocates data in large-ish block
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by theamk 2y ago
Don't know about VB6, but at least Delphi had Align property and TPanel/TGroupBox. Together, it allowed to make apps that handle resizing just fine without any custom logic. (it has been a very long time, but I think those only ha
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by theamk 2y ago
Agree, Delphi was extremely nice way to do UI development.. I've made many small GUIs for everyday tasks back when I was using it. Unfortunately "dependency hell" was very real -- it was super-easy to download ActiveX control
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by theamk 2y ago
the blog does not load to me, but is this really "Delphi 5"? As in Borland Delphi 5 "Argus" released in August 1999 which introduced XML support and ADO databases?
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by theamk 2y ago
it's right there in first paragraph: > authorities have acknowledged that they are investigating possible involvement by the police If it's true, or even if there is a non-zero probability of this, I would not expect official o
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by theamk 2y ago
Those measures target the AI companies that "misbehave", a.k.a. ignore robots.txt and scrape at such high rate that websites go down. The fact that their service may be useful to someone is not an excuse. Imagine hypothetical deli
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by theamk 2y ago
this is explicitly "misbehaving bots" - it's for performance, not against scraping in general. A bot which is slower than average user is likely well-behaving, and therefore is out of scope.
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by theamk 2y ago
When you say "reciprocal mistrust", what parties do you have in mind? Websites not trusting visitors and visitors ot trusting websites? because the latter was already the case, and AI made it much worse. Any unfamiliar websife co
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by theamk 2y ago
Note that grep in particular is extremely optimized.. If you have multi-gigabyte files, and you only search for one thing, shelling out to grep will likely have much better performance that doing it yourself. But not every system needs that
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by theamk 2y ago
The AI slop is definitely less expensive for the author, as all the efforts are expended by CF's infrastructure, while the host sees zero requests. In the previous discussions, one of the big AI problems was that they follow every link
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by theamk 2y ago
I think "trust-free and decentralized internet" started to die with the first email spam message... we thought at least websites are safe but AI bots proved otherwise. CF, if anything, is only helping small websites. Compared to a
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by theamk 2y ago
TL/DR: > If your database is smart enough and capable enough, why would you even need a server? Hosted database saves you from the horrors of hosting and lets your data flow freely to the frontend. (this is a blog of one such hosted

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